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For a carry gun? I'm very close to ordering a Springfield XD40 compact (3" barrel) and I think it would be good to splurge extra for night sights, right now I have no night-sighted guns. So, the cost is the same for the Heine "8" sights (dot over a dot) or for the Trijicon 3-dot night sights.
Is it just a matter of personal preference which to get, if one gets night sights? I don't know that it would matter much to me, although I'm leaning towards 3-dot to be like a number of my other pistols.
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I don't like the Straight 8 night sights... they don't work quite as well.
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I don't like the Straight 8 night sights... they don't work quite as well.-madogre
Great, thanks for sharing your experience on that. Gonna get the Trijicon 3-dots then as I was leaning towards that anyway. My Kahr CW9 has dot-and-post sights which are ok I guess and are probably like the 8 sights, but I prefer the 3-dots when it comes to the regular sights. Glad to get the input.
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Woo hoo, yesterday my XD40sc with the trijicon night sights came in and I was able to pick it up and run a few boxes through it. I still can't get over what a comic-book looking, blocky caricature (sp?) of a pistol it is, especially with the 3" barrel, and yet what a sweet-shooting gun it is. I wasn't shooting groups, just wanted to run 200+ rounds through it for breaking in and seeing reliability. But even just blasting away, the grip, trigger, mechanical fit and everything all together in that XD package let me rapid fire a bunch of .40 holes into a several inch group at 40 feet (as long as this indoor range was). Up close at 20' I felt like I was using a sharpie or something to put holes in the paper, just like pointing a finger. Wow, I like this gun. I like all my others too but these XDs really rub me the right way, I don't think this will be my last XD. New daily carry.
Oh, and on the original subject, the trijicon night sights are really nice too.
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